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Write short note : Strategies of rural development.

  • UPSC 2004
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Rural development means raising the living standards of the low-income rural mass and making that process self-sustaining; it is broader than agricultural development, since it covers health, housing, education, employment and infrastructure alongside cultivation. India's strategies have shifted as each approach revealed its own social limits.

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